[Epoch Times, July 21, 2021]A heavy rainstorm called “One in a Thousand Years” occurred in Henan yesterday. Within one day, some areas of Zhengzhou had nearly 600mm of rainfall a day, and the entire city was covered in a vast ocean. The reservoir broke the dam and the subway was inverted. It is not uncommon to see the scenes of cars without roofs, pedestrians climbing trees, and even electric poles causing passersby to be killed by electric shocks. It is an unprecedented disaster.
Scenes like this are not uncommon in China. The heavy rain that occurred in Beijing on July 21-22, 2012 is still fresh in the memory. In some areas, the rainfall reached 460mm in one day, so-called “once in 500 years.” In the end, the government reported only 79 deaths. According to the author’s chat with Fangshan villagers who were most affected by the disaster, the actual death toll must have exceeded 1,000. The death toll reported by the CCP will never be credible.
Natural disasters are sad, but man-made disasters are unforgivable. Poor planning, high floor area ratio, and high ground hardening rate in Chinese cities are also important killers that cause deaths for the people. Anyone who has been to Western countries knows that these countries did not have so many large cities and super cities with a population of more than millions in the process of economic development. According to statistics in 2019, there are more than one million urban populations in China. There are 92 cities and 42 cities with a population of more than 2 million. So many people are crowded into the city’s high-rise buildings. The roads are hard, the parking lot of the community is hard, and the area of green space is pitifully small. Let’s talk What reduces ground runoff? What about increasing water seepage? Once the rainstorm forms, the road immediately becomes a natural river, and pedestrians and vehicles become fish and turtles. However, most areas in China have a monsoon climate, and most of the annual rainfall is concentrated in the summer months. Therefore, the so-called once-in-century urban flood control standards are now basically once-in-five years. The standard of one encounter is now the annual meeting. It can be said that municipal administrators and the people are in awe when summer comes. I don’t know when a rainstorm will cause major events. Some people joked that they didn’t understand how to pay cars before. Why is the name of the tax called “Vehicle and Vessel Use Tax”? Now it is clear when it rains that the car and the boat really should become one.
The CCP’s so-called urban planning is actually a plan to make a fortune. Every inch of land is worth a lot of money to make the city bigger and stronger. If the population of rural areas and surrounding towns are concentrated in big cities, the land in big cities will be more valuable, and the land price on signboards will be higher. The money will naturally become a part of the land finance and enter the pockets of the government and power personnel. About half of the high urban housing prices are land prices entering the government, and the other half are the materials, labor and equipment costs incurred during the construction process. There are actually many such as construction tax, value-added tax, personal income tax, corporate income tax, the real ones. How much is brick and cement worth? In a super-large city like Beijing, the pure construction and installation cost may not even reach one-fifth of the housing price. The extra money the people spend is taxes and fees, and these taxes and fees are not used to improve the city’s disaster prevention level. In fact, It’s all over.
As for the relationship between the heat island effect caused by large cities and heavy rain, it has also been one of the hot spots of concern in academic circles in recent years. Does it matter? There must be. High-rise buildings are like mountains. The more folds on the ground, the greater the friction on the airflow, resulting in increased rainfall; the heat island effect has a rising hot air current, causing strong convection, and also conducive to the spread of water vapor; urban dust and exhaust gas are rain nucleation Of course, it will cause abnormal rainfall, and it is also one of the boosters of disasters.
Of course, in the face of these real scientific factors, the evil regime of the CCP will not recognize it. Its only prevarication is “once in a hundred years” and “once in a thousand years.” After these idiots have been said many times, no one can deceive. I had to lie to myself.
Editor in charge: Gao Yi
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